Dauntsey's School is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1988. A Victorian School. 20 related planning applications.
Dauntsey's School
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-buttress-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1988
- Type
- School
- Address
- Dauntsey's School, High Street, West Lavington, SN10 4HE
- OS grid reference
- ST 999 536
- Coordinates
- 51.28188, -2.00198
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dauntsey's School is the main block of a public school built in 1898 by C.E. Ponting. The building features red brick with vitrified brick panels on the upper floors and has tiled roofs. The main school faces east and is symmetrical, with a central tower above the entrance and six bay wings that end in five bay terminal pavilions. The entrance has a central panelled door with radial spokes leading to an arched top, flanked by stone voussoirs and pilasters, along with mullioned and transomed windows. Above the entrance is a crest. The tower has two upper stages and a shaped parapet, with a tile-hung turret that supports an arched bellcote and windvane. The flanking bays contain paired paned timber casement windows, with the second and fifth bays raised as hipped dormers above the eaves. The left end pavilion features a central arched entrance and two flat-roofed dormers. Inside, the hall is tiled and has two arches with crowned busts in cartouches in the spandrels. The rear stair hall includes an iron balustrade for a flying stair that is two storeys high and has a roof light.
Local climate
Dauntsey's School receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Related listed building consents — 20 applications
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- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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